BELTWAY GUNRUNNERS

17,000 border agents: Holder must resign

Group cites 'utter failure of leadership at the highest levels of government'

Published: 06/18/2012 at 3:06 PM

(WASHINGTON TIMES) The National Border Patrol Council, which represents all 17,000 of the agency’s nonsupervisory agents, called Monday for the resignation of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. for his role in the botched “Fast and Furious” gunrunning operation that resulted in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

Council President George E. McCubbin III, a 25-year Border Patrol veteran, described Mr. Holder’s actions in the case as “a slap in the face to all Border Patrol agents who serve this country,” adding that the attorney general showed “an utter failure of leadership at the highest levels of government.”